Professor of English who opposed...

CHARLES C. WALCUTT, 80,

April 16, 1989

GREAT NECK, N.Y. — CHARLES C. WALCUTT, 80, professor of English who opposed the ''look say'' method of teaching reading and urged a return to basic education, died Tuesday. Walcutt was the co-author of Basic Reading, a series of elementary-school texts published in 1953, and of critical studies, including Reading: Chaos and Cure, written with his sister Sibyl Terman in 1958, and Tomorrow's Illiterates (1961).